UK council vote a last test for Sunak before election

English voters have headed to polling stations to pick mayors, councillors and a new MPs in the last electoral test for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before a national vote later in 2024.

Expectations among the governing Conservatives are low, but Sunak hopes his party will retain at least one mayoralty to help stem calls for him to quit before the parliamentary election, which he says will likely take place in the second half of 2024.